Ivan Chermayeff: Portrait Collage and Assemblage Ivan Chermayeff revolutionized the field of visual communication as he designed hundreds of some of the most recognizable corporate and institutional logos that proliferate our collective cultural consciousness, including logos for The Smithsonian, NBC, Mobil, Chase Bank, Showtime, Pepsi, MoCA, and many others. Chermayeff did so as co-founder in 1957 of the branding and graphic design firm Chermayeff & Geismar.
Ivan Chermayeff was also an important visual artist who collected media and assembled what he found into abstract figure collage and assemblage. He collected wood and metal. He even collected gloves he found in the street.
This post includes 10 images by Chermayeff and a link for the exhibition “Copy, Cut & Paste: The Visual Language of Ivan Chermayeff” (2024) at the SVA Gramercy Gallery in NY.
Chermayeff said he liked the physical practice of putting things down . . . nails, tacks, tape, stickers and things that hold other things together on a temporary basis. He said “My tendency is to reveal that relationship rather than to disguise it".
His works were whimsical and perfectly design – as you would expect from an artist who was a master of design.
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Book Review: Keep Going: 10 Ways to Stay Creative in Good Times and Bad by Austin Kleon Austin Kleon’s book Keep Going: 10 Ways to Stay Creative in Good Times and Bad is the 3rd book by the author in his trilogy of books that include Steal Like An Artist and Show Your Work.
Keep Going is fun to read because the book design is a visual treat. Austin Kleon is a writer who draws. The content is inspiring with quotes, lists, cartoons and the author’s cartoons and black-out drawings that create a message. Keep Going is a book for every person who is or aspires to be an artist.
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Lee Krasner: Little Images This post includes paintings titled “Little Images” by Lee Krasner and also includes images of collages with little pieces by adult students in my Create with Collage class @Pelham Art Center. I designed a class project inspired by images and essays about Krasner’s works. I read “Throughout her indelible career, Lee Krasner’s tireless and fierce self-examination compelled her to always recreate work… to destroy previous works and reconstitute their elements into new compositions…to reclaim past works of her own, as well as those of her husband Jackson Pollock…to create work in which elements of painting, drawing, and collage coexist in dramatic compositions”. Lee Krasner is increasingly regarded as one of the most philosophical and unwavering pioneers of the Abstract Expressionist movement in America. See 4 Little Images by Lee Krasner and 9 collage by my students who were inspired by Krasner.
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Artists Give Back: Thanksgiving and Gratitude It’s Thanksgiving week. I’m writing about the gift of art and my gratitude for a life in art.
This post will include information about a recent fundraiser event that was organized by Rachel X Hobreigh, a member of the Society of Layerists in Multi-Media (SLMM).
This post will also include information about Art as a gift and about how artists engage with art projects and fundraising events that promote and support the arts and serve the community through art.
I will tell you how Rachel developed the prospectus and worked with the SLMM Board to build support for the project – a Call to Action that asked SLMM members to create one or more 12” x 12” works on paper for UPLIFT that would be sold at the Corridor Gallery.
SLMM members donated 100 works.
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Collage Inspired by Lee Krasner This post is titled Collage Inspired by Lee Krasner and includes 3 collage paintings by Lee Krasner and 9 collages by adult students I teach at the Pelham Art Center. I designed the class project. I wanted the students to be inspired by Lee Krasner’s images and the way she found and worked with her own figure drawings she had created years before. In class we discussed how she tore up her own figure drawing and glued them to her paintings and created works that were totally amazing and groundbreaking at the time – and are still inspiring to artists and students today. This post also includes comments by the art critic Barbara Rose, from an essay that was included in the Paul Kasmin Gallery exhibition catalog Lee Krasner: The Solstice Series in 2017. The essay was printed earlier for the 1983 Lee Krasner retrospective at the Museum of Fine Art, Houston and the Museum of Modern Art, New York. Krasner died in 1984 and was not well enough to attend her museum exhibitions. She lived a long life and waited a long time for the critical recognition she deserved.
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